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Robbie Burns Day

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Robbie Burns Day 

Robbie Burns Day, Happy Robbie Burns Day”! Join the Duke Bar to celebrate the Bard today traditional Scottish menu specialties Scottish pipers and consider Haggis!

January 25th marks the birth of Scotland’s national poet and songwriter Robbie Burns. Our leaders have begun the preparation of haggis, neeps and tatties, but they also have a little something extra up their sleeves … Haggis fritters! If you think you do not like haggis, then you should try this treatment Duke Pub. This is a delicious spin defined on the flat Scots.

We also called for the pipers and drummers for the addressing of the haggis. So come see us, all you guys and girls, and enjoy food and spirit dedicated to honoring Robbie Burns!

Location
Addressing the Haggis Bagpipe and Drum Band
Duke of Somerset, 655 Bay Street
24:15 17:30
Duke of Westminster, First Canadian Place
77 Adelaide Street West
24:40 13:00 and 18:00
Duke of Devon, TD Centre, TD Tower
66 Wellington Street West
1:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. ET
Duke of Richmond
1:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 12:15 p.m. ET
Duke of Kent
18:00 20:00
Duke of York
19:15 21:00

For more information: www.thedukepubs.ca

As Scots and Scots future across Canada celebrate the birthday of Robbie Burns, two senators hope to use letters parliamentary initiative to promote Scottish heritage of Canada.

Liberal Senator Elizabeth Hubley behind Bill S-226, which would establish the National Tartan Tartan Maple Leaf of Canada. Conservative Senator John Wallace supports Bill S-222 to set April 6 as Tartan Day in Canada.

“When you go through the list of people, explorers, fur traders and others who have built this country and our economy, they were driven out by the Scots,” Wallace said in an interview QMI Agency.

The 2006 census conducted by Statistics Canada estimated there were 4,719,850 people of Scottish decent in Canada, the third most common response after English and French.

Tartan Day took off in the world after a push by a clan society in Nova Scotia has begun to grow the event in the 1980s.

Although Canada has a long history with the tartan, including soldiers who fight while wearing a kilt in the First World War, he was never an official tartan for Canada.

Both senators said that although the bills are to recognize the contribution of the Scots in Canada, they do not seek to exclude others.

“This is something that all Canadians can be proud to wear,” said Hubley Maple Leaf Tartan.

Wallace said the history of Canada requests that this kind of recognition.

“I think it’s really important to have an understanding of how we got where we are today. And this is largely due to the Scots,” said Wallace.

Scots played a significant role in the founding of Canada, including the first two Prime Ministers since Confederation – Sir John A. Macdonald and Alexander Mackenzie.

“Robbie Burns Day”célèbre the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns, who wrote in the dialect of Lowland Scots and whose work has been translated into several languages.

Robert Burns

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Robert Burns 

Robert Burns, Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 to July 21, 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland’s favorite son, the poet, farmer, Robden the Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and Scotland as simply The Bard [1] [2]) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. It is widely considered the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is best-known poets who wrote in the Scots language, although many of his writings in English and is also a “light” Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in Standard English, and in such civil or political commentary is often at its most brutal her.

He is considered a pioneer of the Romantic Movement and after his death; he became a great source of inspiration for the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and between the Scottish Diaspora around the world, the celebration of his life and his work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been on Scottish literature. In 2009 he was voted by the Scottish public as the greatest Scot by a vote administered by Scottish television channel STV.

In addition to original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known throughout the world today include A Red, Red Rose, AA Man’s Man for A ‘that, of Pou; a mouse; Battle of Sherrifmuir o Tam ‘Shanter, and Ae Fond Kiss.

Who was Robert Burns.”
A Scottish poet who lived from 1759 until 1796, when he died of rheumatic heart disease. Burns’s poetry celebrated the workingman and is still popular today.

What Burns then write poems?
Auld Lang Syne for a start. He also writes.

In a mouse

Wee sleeker, cow’rin, timorous beastie,
O, what panic’s in thy breast!
You need Na start awa sae hasty,
Brattle WI bickering!
I wad be a rin Laith you out,
Pattle WI murder!

Whiskey will be drunk, read poems and traditional Scottish dishes are eaten.

Importantly, the haggis will be fed into the piper leads a procession from the kitchen followed by the titular head of a haggis aloft.

The guest then recites the Address to a Haggis before formally deciding the delicacy of sheep’s bladder.

A toast was then drunk whiskey.

More toasts followed, including the toast to the Lassies followed by Reply to the Toast to the Lassies.

The whiskey will flow and you sing in your best Scottish accent when the final Auld Lang Syne is sung.

[via wikipedia and other sources, Image from telegraph.co.uk]

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